A new report says that Google’s Penguin update is getting stricter. Initially, websites with about 80 percent manipulative links saw their rankings demoted. Now Google Penguin is hitting sites with link profiles composed of 65 percent of bad links.

Late last week a group of Google critics, rivals and complainants sent an “open letter” to EU competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia asking him to focus on the “vertical search” or “search neutrality” dimensions of the Google antitrust case. The letter says,… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

If you look at most company blogs, they’re incredibly boring. They’re often nothing more than marketing material and press releases. I’ve seen company blogs  where every single post is about a new function or feature added to their product.   As a result not a single potential customer reads the blog

Now you can search for images within Google+, which is an excellent resource for my Search Pic of the Day column. Dave Cohen from Google announced…

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, we have our first case of Google Knowledge Graph nudity or pornography come up. Here is a picture (note, it no longer works for this query): How this happened is unknown to me right now.

Google announced they have improved a few things with Google Webmaster Tools verification. (1) They now show more details on who is verified for your site and how. (2) They also do not let you remove a user unless that verification method is removed..

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft Shows Off Coming Improvements To Bing App’s Voice Search Microsoft has shared video of what was a confidential, employee-only demonstration of new… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Seniors Workshop: Source: Flickr Google Fish: Source: Google+ Google..